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Pearl Tull is nearing the end of her life but not of her memory. It was a Sunday night in 1944 when her husband left the little row house on Baltimore's Calvert Street, abandoning Pearl to raise their three children alone: Jenny, high-spirited and determined, nurturing to strangers but distant to those she loves; the older son, Cody, a wild and incorrigible youth possessed by the lure of power and money; and sweet, clumsy Ezra, Pearl's favorite, who never stops yearning for the perfect family that could never be his own. Now Pearl and her three grown children have gathered....

Special Agent Marc Donner of the FBI has been tracking a killer for the best part of two years. A murderer that strikes once every few weeks. The victims are all men, many disappearing only to be found months later, dumped in forests or rivers or quarries, far from their places of death. After all this time, Donner has gleaned only a handful of facts from the few witnesses and snippets of CCTV footage available. He’s hunting a middle-aged woman who drives a van with blacked-out windows and false plates. Often she poses as a child online to lure in her prey.

Rebecca Carter is back from the dead. Driven by two desperate urges – to find her daughter, and to sate her hunger – she seeks out the only person who can help her: the Nurse. But when she arrives she finds him badly injured, and with warnings of a new danger hot on her tail. Alone in the wild, Monica Carter survives on whatever small prey she can hunt down. But she needs more. One night, lost and terrified, she catches the maddening scent of human blood. A young man calls out to her as Moonflower, and tells her to come with him and his younger brother. They will look after her. Keep her safe.